World Council of Churches’ Central Committee moderator and the local host committee moderator share joys, gratitude
In preparation for the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Dr. Agnes Abuom, Moderator of the WCC Central Committee, couldn’t help but hearken back to the 10th Assembly, held in 2013 in Busan in the Republic of Korea.
“What imprinted on my mind was the message to be pilgrims together in the pilgrimage for justice and peace. That really resonated,” Abuom said recently during an interview by the Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith, Central Committee member from the National Baptist Convention, USA, attending the 11th Assembly being held through Sept. 8 in Karlsruhe, Germany. “Being in a divided country, Korea, the whole issue of peace was really critical for me. Just thinking of the militarization in the region — the call for a pilgrimage for justice and peace became so critical for me at that particular time.”
Bishop Petra Bosse-Huber of the Evangelical Church in Germany, moderator for the local host committee, marveled “at the hospitality of the people and the church in South Korea. That was such a great experience for me, and I think for many other people,” she said during the same interview. “The power of the pilgrimage of justice and peace has been with us over the years — and I was so happy to have an African delegate as our moderator,” Bosse-Huber said with a nod to Abuom, who’s from the Anglican Church of Kenya.
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